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Just what is wrong with the messages he broadcasts? He wants peace and prosperity for all.

Scott Ritter is a patriotic American who wants the best for his country and its citizens. He can see the folly in unnecessary conflicts. Especially those that could easily lead to a nuclear showdown. He wants peace and prosperity for the world .

Indeed! Same when Rooney broke his metatarsal back in 2006. Most people before than, would have thought a 'metatarsal' was something in a computer or outer-space.

Wow!! Close. Not quite good enough to push your pawn Champs. Pompey 7 - Reading 4. A record score for the EPL. 10 goals has been hit 5 times. No! Not a quiz question. Could have been though. Gunners, United and Spurs each involved in two matches. And Reading too if the 11 score is counted. Baggies 5 - United 5 Spurs 6 - Reading 4 Gunners 7 - Toon 3 United 8 - Gunners 2 Spurs 9 - Wigan 1

Is he right about the two conflicts mentioned?

Think he was on an 18 or older site when the sting occurred. He certainly knows about both the Ukraine and Israel conflicts. Perhaps knows too much for the Americans. A bit like Assange; kill the truth at any cost.

But!! Is he telling the truth?

Thought Scott Ritter was out-of-bounds for AN.

A nice candle-lit supper with Nok could be possible for any member getting all the footy questions correct; any week. And an exciting, but relaxing, game of chess after the grub. I'll have a word with her. See if she is game for a game. From now, to the start of the EPL, I'll put up some weekly footy questions. And anyone getting them right; any week,, well,, brush up on yer chess gambits. But no Googling now. Only if yer give up. So let's kick off with three easy-peasee, lemon-squeezee ones. 1 - These two teams met each other, home and away, in the top flight. 19 goals in the two games. A 8-4 and a 3-4. Clue;;; both teams playing in the EPL this year. What clubs? 2 - What did Cameron Brannagan (ex-Liverpool) do in the game Gillingham v Oxford United on 20th January 2022. Result 2-7. a/ Scored 2 own goals for Oxford, and two for Gills b/ Scored 4 goals from 4 penalties c/ Hat-trick in first 7 minutes d/ Scored 6 goals; all in second half. 3- Alex Ferguson went to Man Utd in 1986, and suffered a loss in his first game as boss. What club beat his lads? a/ Swindon Town b/ Northampton Town c/ Carlisle United d/ Oxford United. That's it for the opener. Answers, and three more riveting questions next week. Thanks for playing. Nok!! Stop stroking that bishop.

I reckon the Foxes could handle an 8 pointer, but any more than that could be dodgy for them.

The tractors are for sure will be an unknown quantity. But, I think they have good momentum. Had a great season when they were promoted to the Championship, and carried that through another season. A good mid-table bet there. Foxes can do better than 10th. I agree with you somewhat about Saints Champers. Their campaign got off to an terrible start, but, gradually and steadily they rose to the top six. They could struggle, but IMO, there are lesser teams than them. Who then to go down? Bees, Forest and ??? A couple in the frame there. Wolves had a terrible end run of results. Carry on like that and they will go. Fulham must find early consistency. Too unpredictable for me. Don't think Cherries; although they lost their last 3. Can't see Toffees less than half way. Puts Saints in the frame for sure. Teams to do well. Two Londoners to make top 6. Chelsea, although 6th this season, seemed to have turned the corner. And Palace have found something that all the lesser clubs need; belief. If they can continue that; the 5/6 spot is there for taking. Can't see Irons bettering this seasons place. United and Toon to finish about the same. Seagulls, at the deat,h slipped into relegation form. But good for mid-table. Keep saying 'mid-table'; so what is it? Guess it's 8th to 14th; inclusive. Top 4? Another thread for that.

A bit quiet on the footy front for a while. So let me pose a footy question to get the juices partly flowing until it all kicks off in August. At this last season the three promoted clubs; Burnley, Sheffield United and Luton Town, must have all fancied their chances of staying up for at least a season or two. Alas, it was not to be, and all three went crashing back down last month. Similarly, the three clubs relegated back then, could be forgiven in thinking that they would come straight back up. Leeds, Southampton and Leicester were, by most accounts, good enough to return immediately. Well, it didn't turn out exactly that way as only two made it. The Tractor Boys upset those expectations, and considering they were only promoted the year before, it was a grand achievement for them to break through into the EPL. So, what does the 2024/25 season have in store for the three promoted clubs; Tractors, Foxes and Saints? My personal opinion is that all three will stay up; at least for one season; maybe a few more. What say you?

The hat lady is now just a dream. A fantasy. People ask me if I'm an anti-vaxxer. I say; I've had over 50 jabs this year. Hope the wife don't discover the right cross, or left hook. Better for my health if I forget that lovely bit of stuff. She said she was saving herself for me though.

So where's my wager going for the next PM? Farage or Galloway? Two wings of the same bird; two sides of the same coin; two cheeks of the same ass (as George Galloway so eloquently puts it)

Have to sort these things our beforehand. When I win the 6 million, 5 of those are already spoken for. But I will have a new house to live in, a new car to drive and lots of gold to look at. I'm quite content to keep things as they are. But might change my mind after a few whackings.

Thanks for the reply HP. The times we are talking are long gone. Northern Isaan was a mix of Isaan people and Laoans, Chinese and Burmese. On the whole they got on well together, mixed, bred and generally got on with life. The Thai powers back in Ayutthaya didn't seem too bothered by it all. But a member of the royalty, Prince Prajak - brother of Rama 5 - got an army together to drive the Laotians back across the Mekong. The massacre at Kham Chanot was part of that drive. This era was the founding of the city of Udon Thani. Prince Prajek called it the 'City of the North', and it gradually grew to what is is today; helped, much later, by US dosh; post WW11. A visit the Museum in Vientiane seems to depict a different story. One of great victories. As with most history; complicated, confused but non-the-less very interesting. I'm pretty sure you will be 6 million baht better off come the 16th of the month HP.

The whole area has a murky part. A couple of hundred people were on the island hiding away from the rampaging arms. Unfortunately for them they were spotted. I have some pics of the bridge in the early days of construction. Could do a special on Kham Chanod. Interesting place. Hope you didn't drink any of the water from the lucky pool. Not known anyone to have a swallow and not get ill. Although the wife says it is lucky water.

Great pics. What I recall about the front, at Phon Paisai was the 'Buddha cave'. Did you visit it HP? Very lucky spot. Ah yes!! Kham Chanod. Been there a many of times, but not in the last couple of years. They come from all over to visit. Seen plenty of Chinese there in the past. Heard the monks were looking for some cats a few years back. Bit of a rat problem on the island. We looked after 40+ at that time. We took 10 to the site. Went back there a few months later and one of the cats recognised me and came over for a big 'hi there' stroke. Beautiful moment. Where you visited today has a dark secret (perhaps not so secret now-a-days) history. A big massacre took place there a while back. There is a film; ''Ghosts of Kham Chanod(t)'' Think I've got that right. Eerie film all right. There was a fish pond there many moons ago, with absolutely thousands of fish. I'll dig out the vid and post it. ps --- great place to buy a lottery ticket. Towards the draw dates there are sometimes 100 sellers. Can't go wrong with thousands of numbers to choose from.

Thanks for that HP. I did good with that competition. Did OK with a couple of others. Scottish Prem and Spanish; made top 10. But the EP???!!! finished outside the first 1000. TBH, it was the earlier rounds that won it for me in the Ch Lg comp. One week I got 5 correct scores out of 8 matches. At semi and final stage I only got the result; no correct score. But I had a good lead by then. I've had a couple of messages asking me to join their private leagues for next season. That's fame for ya.

Don't know the difference between the sexes of Pla Nin. At least not when they are tiddlers. when they grow bigger it's easy to tell. Rama 5 eh? One of the most famous of the long dynasty. Should have recognised him. Shame on me. Got a very decent downpour earlier today.

It's doing great. Although only goes on 250 metre there and back trips. Not been to the farm on it for over a week. Only been charged up twice since we got it.

Great pics HP. Make Mrs HP right about those underwater logs. Mystical and mysterious they are.

Owl Log - Sunday 02-06-2024 Champions League final last evening. Went to bed early so didn't watch it. Good game evidently. Now in the 'Predict the Football' Ch Lg contest there were nearly 8 thousand entries. And who won? Drum role for Mr Owl, if you please, Mr MagGoo. And a nice trophy. In the post as I type. I'll not say what the first prize was worth in money terms, as the wife might stumble across my computer at the wrong moment, while I'm getting a drink from the fridge or something. And would naturally demand her share. As Thai wives do. All in all, not a bad week. Sold some rice at a very decent price. Got a drop of rain, and made myself a new chogchog. There wasn't anything wrong with the old one. But I'll keep the new one at the palm farm. So it will always be handy when I go. Our euca farm is a magnet for the wold mushroom pickers. In Essex we picked these mushrooms and called them magic mushrooms. They look so alike. Must try some. Soo wanted to borrow 10 sacks of rice for sowing. Mrs Owl reckoned we only needed 7 sacks to see us through to the harvest. So we sorted out the rice store. Had 16 sacks extra to take to Ban Dung. And on to the rice whole-seller in Ban Dung. Very quiet. We were the only ones there. At harvest time there would be vehicles queuing outside. Worked out at 365 baht a sack for sticky rice, and a whopping 416 baht for Thai rice. Robert joins me every time I go out. Although I don't go very far. Only to the PVC shop, or the farm. He knows the way to the farm, and if I try to sneak out to the farm without him, he jumps the house fence, and joins me later. Someone has dumped building trash, near where the school bus stops to pick up the children. Disgraceful! One morning last week a pick-up came round selling fingerlings. Just pla nin, and a fish I didn't recognise. Didn't get any. Last Monday, we all went to /ban Dung cause Mildred had lost her ID card, and it had to be replaced. So a visit to the Government offices. No big deal. Except the wait. Got there for 8-30 and the ladies came out at 11-30. So three hours. It was that busy. I stayed mostly outside, fed the fish, and had a wander about. Had some dog biscuit in the Mazza. So dropped a bit in. The biggest fish I saw was only 6 inches (15cm) long . Wandered over to the statue opposite. Neither Mrs Owl or Mildred knew who the guy was (asked since). Out of curiosity, I'll try to find out. Down one of the sois at the back of the Government buildings were a couple of sad looking dwellings. And when I was in the rice place, I spotted another. Real shame to see once proud houses uncared for, and falling apart. Bought 16 sacks of cow poopoo on Saturday (yesterday). Loaded them onto the Mazza and dropped them by the new water tanks. A family of four lives in this house. No leccy. No solar. Above the cows. Mildred passed the time by feeding the farm dogs. The little one looks sick to me. Maybe just not enough grub. Spotted a strange guy at his farm in the week. Very scary. Having the long grass cut around the farm house and ponds. Soo is doing the biz. Although off on a smoke, or Lao khow break, when I got there. About three days work in all. Looks so much better after a grass cut. But only lasts for 6/7 weeks, before needing another trim . As usual, when we went to Ban Dung, we had to visit the market. Didn't get any prawns. So expensive But did get 10 sticks of sausage for me supper. 5 baht a stick. That's more like it. 50 baht for a good meal. Who needs fancy prawns? Dear me. Has Kun given up on the charcoal for this year? The place is falling apart. Two doors away (down town) from us, they have marked out for a house. Pond number 5 looks great. The fish are very lively. MOVIE nin00.mp4 +++++ Well done Real Madrid. 15 times a winner of Europe's top trophy. Villa to win next season; mark my words. +++++ Mildred not at school tomorrow. Might take a trip over to the next but one village to see how me motor bike is doing. Not heard a word. +++++ What is going on in this mad world? Moscow under attack. And the Ruskies threatening to sever the underwater fibre optic cables linking Europe with Nth America. I've got me 7 metre deep well at the farm to dive into. We are only 7km from the huge Voice of America' transmitting station. so that's sure to get a rocket or two, if it kicks off. National Service in the UK. Can see that being popular. +++++ Been a good week. No whackings from Mrs Owl. Delivered rice and cow poopoo in the Mazza. Solar pumps working well. Turned the palm one off last Sunday for two days. +++++ Lady came for her usual 3k baht. The deal is that she gives us back 12 sacks at harvest. +++++ Pook - Mrs Owl's sister - gave me back 20k of the 35k I loaned her earlier this year. +++++ Waiting for two Lazada deliveries today. Fish oil and cat food. The delivery people phoned yesterday and promised this afternoon. +++++ Election fever is high in the UK. TBH, although I'm a paid up Labour Party member, I don't like, or trust, Sir K Starmer. Didn't do right with either Savile or Assange for me. +++++ Overcast and very warm. No rain. The Thai metro office says the rain, as at the start of June, is 26% down on average, for the year so far. +++++ Doing a new thing now. Once a week I'm 'overdosing' on vitamin C. Did it a couple of times last month, and after the initial detox shock, I'm feeling better. Can't expect to graft at the farm for a few hours every day if you are not at your best. Only one thing left to say; bye ya'll.

Our new leccy three wheeler got something of a puncture last week. The tyre simply came off the rim. Bought an inner-tube the week before, but the man told Mrs Owl it wasn't needed; and put everything back as it was. Still non the wiser why it came off. Making me think going to Udon on it is not such a good thing. No pics as I was in the farm when the tyre fix man came. 160 baht fee.

Good grief. That's Phon Phisai for yer. Don't happen in our parts. Simply not enough water in the paddy HP. Here's how to do it. rice prepare.mp4 Great pics HP.